19 Facts About Herbert Engelsing

Herbert Engelsing maintained a high profile in the film business and low profile in the resistance, but made his mark by introducing many new people into the organisation, brokering deals and providing secure locations for meetings.

Herbert Engelsing did not receive permanent residency due to false accusations of being the head of a Soviet sleeper cell.

Herbert Engelsing studied law, literature and art history and earned a doctorate in law.

Herbert Engelsing retained the right to practice as a lawyer, by joining the firm of Carl Langbehn, a well known and prominent law firm.

Herbert Engelsing was responsible for distribution the films, such as Willi Forst's upbeat comedy Tomfoolery produced in 1936.

Herbert Engelsing held a similar position at several film companies until the end of the war in 1945.

Herbert Engelsing's films include the Forst productions Serenade and the 1939 film Bel Ami, but the Nazi propaganda films The Fox of Glenarvon, My Life for Ireland and Jakko.

Between 1937 and 1944, Herbert Engelsing was executive producer on thirty-four films.

Herbert Engelsing was sufficiently successful to maintain his own division in 1942 when Tobis Films lost its independence when it was merged with Terra, Bavaria Film and Wien-Film to form UFA GmbH by the Nazis.

Herbert Engelsing friends included the actors Heinz Ruhmann and Theo Lingen Herbert Engelsing was close to many members of the Babelsberg film community, the home of the Babelsberg Studio.

In 1939, the Herbert Engelsing's introduced Maria Terwiel and her future fiance Helmut Himpel into the group.

Herbert Engelsing's work was so good that Engelsing had recommended him to his film friends and that led to him to build a career as a dentist to German film stars.

Herbert Engelsing was a so-called contact man, which means that our organization used the connections he had with key figures in the Third Reich.

In early 1941, when Schulze-Boysen began to spy for the Soviet Union, Herbert Engelsing broke of their friendship, as he believed it was an act of betrayal.

At the beginning of 1950, Herbert Engelsing made himself available as a witness in the preliminary proceedings against the then representative of the prosecution in the "Red Orchestra Trial", the Nazi apologist and General Judge Manfred Roeder.

Herbert Engelsing was admitted to the bar of the French military courts in 1945, where he was one of two lawyers admitted to practice.

Herbert Engelsing took on mandates for some former southwest German military economic leaders in denazification proceedings.

Attempts by Herbert Engelsing to regain a foothold there in the film business failed.

Herbert Engelsing remained a lawyer until his untimely death in 1962.